Impact
Support Justice and Healing
for Nepal's Wartime Rape Survivors
After continuous lobbying and advocacy, Devi has managed to include almost all the demands of the survivors into the newly amended Truth and Reconciliation bill, currently debated in the parliament.
She’s managed to lobby to reopen the registration of new cases of sexual violence survivor in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), and has been drafting the policies required to open the ways for this. Many survivors, who live in remote corners of the country, will need support to register their cases.
For the past two years, Devi and her team have been working tirelessly to get the TRC bill passed. Although the Prime Minister promised them it would happen in the first session of parliament starting on February 7th, it hasn't happened yet. Devi must keep pushing to make sure the bill gets through.
The Devi impact campaign aims to:
Showcase how Devi Khadka and other Nepalese women are leading the fight for justice in cases of wartime rape.
Inspire the international community to apply or increase pressure on the Nepali government to strengthen its laws to provide wartime justice accountability and better protect women from sexual violence in all circumstances.
Challenge the stigma for sexual violence victims and survivors and helping to advance efforts to secure access to support for survivors in Nepal & beyond.
Impact Partners
“I realised our story was being erased from history. And I was willing to die to keep that from happening.”
— Devi Khadka
The rights of women and sexual assault victims to justice and safety must be protected everywhere.
Our impact campaign will support and strengthen protagonist Devi Khadka as she fights for the women of Nepal to achieve justice for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). With Devi at the heart of a powerful international movement, the film will put a global spotlight on the importance of this issue for the future of the rule of law in Nepal, and beyond in places like Ukraine.
CRSV victims during Nepal’s civil war continue to be denied justice. Justice will only be achieved when international actors use their position and leverage to pressure the Nepali government to follow through on transitional justice commitments.
By building a powerful international community around Devi to demand action and accountability by the Nepal authorities on CRSV justice, the impact campaign will change perceptions of Nepal’s CRSV survivors, create and improve support networks for women victims of sexual violence in Nepal, stimulate international conversations around Nepal’s post-conflict justice mechanisms gaps and needs, and ultimately advance the global movement for women’s rights by contributing to a world in which victims of sexual violence can pursue justice against their attackers confident that society and systems will protect them.
Actions in our impact campaign to achieve these objectives will include high-level political screenings, meetings and advocacy, mobilising civil society organisations and influential figures such as Pramila Pratten UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict and Reem Alsalem UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women to publicly support Devi and the film and demand that CRSV be prioritised in the Nepal transitional justice agenda.
We will connect with Nepal organisations to embed the film in their ongoing activities and embolden other women to join with Devi, and engage wider international audiences with educational materials and screenings, and by using high-profile moments such as the International Day for Eliminating Sexual violence in Conflict to promote the film and Devi’s mission, drawing attention to Devi and the film as the key voice driving legal, societal and policy conversations and outcomes.
Our impact campaign is focused on delivering measurable outcomes, we will collect data throughout the campaign to inform our strategy and actions, and report on achieved results through quantitative and qualitative indicators.